self-help and back-to-work blues

Two articles in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning (yes, I'm off to a great, hard-working, efficient start on this delightful Wednesday -- prepare for self-flagellation/loathing by 5pm tonight when I realise I have done fuck-all all day and will hence stay at work till 10pm) that struck a chord. One on the self-help / importance-of-self-esteem movement (especially prevalent in the US but fast-encroaching on Oz), the other on my current predicament: back-to-work blues after a holiday.